Kathryn M. Yount, Nafisa Halim, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Sara K. Head
According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in poorer countries, 50 % of women of reproductive age report that wife hitting or beating is justified. Such high rates may result from structural pressures to adopt such views or to report the perceived socially desirable response. In a survey ...
Md. Jahirul Islam, Nafisa Nawal Islam, Md. Siddik Alom, Mahmuda Kabir et al.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, is a highly transmittable and pathogenic human coronavirus that first emerged in China in December 2019. The unprecedented outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 devastated human health within a short time leading to a gl...
Pallab Mozumder, Alok K. Bohara, Robert P. Berrens, Nafisa Halim
ABSTRACT Based on multiple rounds of household survey data collected in the year after the 1998 massive flooding in Bangladesh, we investigate the role of private transfers as a social coping response to natural disasters. We also explore the role of private transfers (gifts) as an informal insuranc...
Md Momin Hossain, Md. Yakub Ali Khan, Md. Abdul Halim, Nafisa Sultana Elme et al.
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells have shown great potential in increasing the efficiency of solar cells, with efficiencies reaching as high as 25%. However, the stability of these cells remains a major challenge that must be addressed before they can be commercialized. This review focuses on th...
Mohammad Asif Hasan Khan, Pallab Mozumder, Nafisa Halim, Sisi Meng
Abstract Due to its unique location, Bangladesh often faces devastating hydroclimatic shocks such as floods and cyclones. In the recent past, three major cyclones (Sidr in 2007, Aila in 2009, and Komen in 2015) claimed 3800 lives and damaged hundreds of thousands of houses with billions of dollars i...
Kathryn M. Yount, Nafisa Halim, Sara K. Head, Sidney Ruth Schuler
Using data from 165 participants in a survey experiment in six Ban-gladeshi villages, we explored the levels and correlates of women's indeterminate responses to a five-part attitudinal question on intimate partner violence (IPV) against women from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. ...
Pallab Mozumder, Nafisa Halim
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a participatory institutional development approach for better primary schooling in Bangladesh. We conduct a qualitative investigation and find that, despite some limitations, the two key instruments of the participatory approach, school catchment area mappin...
F.R. Khan, Anika Tasnim Aurony, Md. Abdur Rahman, Faiza Munira et al.
A significant percentage of population in Bangladesh is directly or indirectly dependent upon the traditional tri-wheeler rickshaw. In order to advance the lifestyle and modernize the traditional tri-wheeler, battery powered rickshaws were introduced and thus it gained enormous popularity. However, ...
Anika Tajrian Khan, Golam Mahmud Chowdhury, Juwairiyah Hafsah, Md. Nazmul Hossain Maruf et al.
The main protease of SARS-CoV-2 is a promising drug target due to its functional role as a catalytic dyad in mediating proteolysis during the viral life cycle. In this study, experimentally proven 14 HIV protease peptides were screened against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2. Fourteen middle and hig...
Tanvir Pavel, Syed Abul Hasan, Nafisa Halim, Pallab Mozumder
We examined whether floods and cyclones, the shocks that are transient in nature, affect interregional migration differently compared to riverbank erosion that causes loss of lands and thus generates permanent shocks. We tracked Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2000 participants in nine coast...
Nafisa Ahsan Nitu, Halimah Mohamed Ali
Currently, women are increasingly assuming the role of catalysts for social change. Nevertheless, this occurrence is infrequent in Bangladesh. In this society, women's empowerment is rarely observed due to its status as a developing country. However, sometimes, we cannot disregard the demeanor of a ...
Tiara C. Willie, Marina Katague, Nafisa Halim, Jhumka Gupta
OBJECTIVE: To examine distinct patterns of IPV perpetration and examined gender equitable attitudes as a correlate of these patterns among men from six countries in Asia and the Pacific. DESIGN: 2011-12 UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence cross-sectional study. SETTING: Households in Banglade...
Samiha Sultana, Nafisa Maliat, Fahim Halim Khan, Ankur Paul et al.
ABSTRACT This comprehensive research focuses on the prospective use of Catla catla fish scales as a bioadsorbent for removing heavy metals, particularly Cr (III) and Co (II), from wastewater and determining which metal ion is more likely to be removed efficiently. The study incorporates a rigorous m...
Bolanle Banigbe, Nafisa Halim, Tobias F Rinke de Wit, Patricia A. Elliott et al.
Background More than 80% of the global premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Nigeria, like most LMICs, has limited capacity to respond to diabetes and hypertension. As the Lagos State government accelerates the rollout of its man...
Alif Laila, Halima Akter, Zobida Sultana Susan, Shirin Shabnam et al.
Maternal Serum Procalcitonin as a Predictor of Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis in Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes: A Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh